Saudi King Warns ISIS "Will Reach Europe In One Month, US In Two"

As if the fearmongery and vitriol of UK, Europe and the US were not enough, the Middle-East's 'allied' leaders are now opining on the threat of ISIS. As FOX News reports, The king of Saudi Arabia has warned that jihadists could target the United States and Europe if leaders across the globe do not react to growing terrorist threats as Islamic State militants make advances across Iraq and Syria. "If neglected, I am certain that after a month they will reach Europe and, after another month, America," blasted King Abdullah, adding Cameron-esquely, "they know no humanity." Of course, this is quote ironic given the Saudi's funding of various terror groups throughout the region.

The king of Saudi Arabia has warned that jihadists could target the United States and Europe if leaders across the globe do not react to growing terrorist threats as Islamic State militants make advances across Iraq and Syria.

While not mentioning any terrorist groups by name, King Abdullah's statement appeared aimed at drawing Washington and NATO forces into a wider fight against the Islamic State terror organization and its supporters in the region. Saudi Arabia openly backs rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar Assad, but is concerned that the breakaway Al Qaeda group could also turn those very same weapons on the kingdom.

"If neglected, I am certain that after a month they will reach Europe and, after another month, America," he said at a reception for foreign ambassadors Friday.

"These terrorists do not know the name of humanity and you have witnessed them severing heads and giving them to children to walk with in the street," the king said, urging the ambassadors to relay his message directly to their heads of state.

The Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS, has been fighting moderate rebels, other extremists and Assad's forces in Syria for nearly three years. Iraq has faced an onslaught by the Sunni extremists and their supporters since early this year, and the country continues to be roiled by instability.

While providing arms and support to Sunni militants in Syria, Saudi Arabia has denied directly funding or backing the Islamic State group.

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Saudi Arabia, a major U.S. ally in the region, has taken an increasingly active role in criticizing the Islamic State group. Earlier this month, the country's top cleric described the Islamic State group and Al Qaeda as Islam's No. 1 enemy and said that Muslims have been their first victims. State-backed Saudi clerics who once openly called on citizens to fight in Syria can now face steep punishment and the kingdom has threatened to imprison its citizens who fight in Syria and Iraq.

A decade ago, Al Qaeda militants launched a string of attacks in the kingdom aimed at toppling the monarchy. Saudi officials responded with a massive crackdown that saw many flee to neighboring Yemen. In the time since, the kingdom has not seen any massive attacks, though it has imprisoned suspected militants and sentenced others to death.

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The question is - is this an explicit call for US to protect them more... or else... or just more posturing to stir the populist vote for more war...?

Pretty sure John Paulsen bough that a few years back if I remember correctly. I believe for a little while at least that property was one of the most expensive in the states.

I had the fortune to work in Aspen for a few weeks about five years ago on a very nice property there. Good bud gave me the dime tour of the town. Fucking unreal, playground of the rich for the most part.

I was happy to sit and watch the trail groomers at night on the slopes from a balcony, beat the hell out of rubbing elbows with the upper crust(besides the fact I can't afford to rub elbows with the aforementioend)

They could burn the fields and the terminals and we would have them back up and running in 6 months, only nukes could keep those fields from utilization until bone dry. I am sure Vlad has some say in this very complex chess game. One thing is for sure sooner or later house of Saud is house of head on pike..

Taking the equivalent of half the daily US oil consumption away would remove that "excess" that could be used to bring those terminals and fields back online. So if 9 million barrels of oil a day aren't flowing somewhere, I doubt that there's enough reserves to allow anything to be rebuilt in such a short time frame. Unless someone can print some oil.

Carrier task force groups, I'll just leave that there.. Other countries and their oil utilization would certainly change quickly. Ours not as badly, drastic and nearly cataclysmic shock yes, end for us no...

I'm not very good at this sunni/shia stuff, but I think mecca is the one shrine they both care about. Sunnis really love blowing up shia shrines, but I don't remember hearing about shias blowing up sunni shrines...

Destroy Mecca?? At the opportunity cost of turning that place into a revolving tourist attraction?

I think whoever scores control of the gate to that stone has probably secured himself a gold mine of his own. Just imagine how much he could charge the faithful at the door just to see it? Now, imagine how much he could charge infidels in the off-season to laugh at it?

So now that 9/11 is a sanctified national holiday we should
1. Shop till we drop
2. Seek shelter in place under a desk. (Preferably with scissors)
3. Take the day off with pay and have a mooslim over for a spare rib BBQ and blow up some fireworks.
4. Shop for a shelter with a Muslim with fireworks

The USA should be careful if they unleash the drones on the House of Saud... The World Reserve Currency Status of the USA depends upon the House of Saud, since that is WHOM we made the deal with, and that World Reserve Currency Status is not immortal, nor is it assured...

BUT IT IS ESSENTIAL IF YOU WANT TO CONTINUE YOUR MEAGER STANDARD OF LIVING AND NOT SUFFER WORSE.

Yep. 1973.The year the government and Pentagon saw proof of 'peak oil' in the US.That's when we started to get their ducks in a row and all this oil shit started. And, as you said, we agreed to protect the House of Saud and their oil fields